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Last November, CAUSE student Kate Darby attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in the Netherlands with other students, scientists, lobbyists, heads of state, and presidents of countries with environmental concerns. (Al Gore and Bill Clinton would have attended had it not been for the on-going presidential election.) The conference goal was to negotiate a final draft of the Kyoto Protocol, which sets greenhouse gas emission limits on countries in an effort to curb climate change.

"Twenty of us were together"—15 undergraduates, two instructors, and three graduate students to help with the driving—"for 24 hours a day, for two weeks," says student Kate Darby. "By 7 am, we had to be out and ready to go for a long day."